Mahipatram Rupram Ashram - aide to women & orphaned children

 

Mr. Rohitbhai Patel, one of the managing partners of M/s C Gordhandas & Co., Ahmedabad is a trustee of Mahipatram Rupram Ashram which provides aid and shelter to deserted women and orphaned children. Established on Dec17, 1892 on a humanitarian ground, the Mahipatram ashram is one of the largest and oldest orphanages in the country. The trust was registered under Societies Registration Act (1949) and Public Charitable Trust Act F/45 (1953). The main activities of the Ashram are  - (1) To protect and to bring up the abandoned new born and the infants and to provide them shelter till the age of maturity, (2) To provide support and facilities to the helpless and handicapped children, (3) To rescue, protect and give psychological support to the rejected, homeless and exploited women of society along with their children, (4) To provide facilities for secret deliveries and render shelter to pregnant women who have become victims of circumstances, (5) To provide shelter to the deserted women and widows till the time they become independent and can support themselves, by imparting them vocational training in various fields, (6) To look after the various needs of the children and to engage them in a variety of cultural activities and (7) To establish, run and maintain educational institutions and other centers of vocational training for the progress and development of the inmates of the Ashram. The Ashram gained its reputation in due course and was recognised with “Child Welfare Award” in 1986 and with “Certificate of Excellence” and with a cash award of Rs.1 Lac, for its most commendable activity in the field of welfare of destitute women in 1991 by Govt. of Gujarat.

 

 

 

Diabetes Awareness & Check-up Camp

Diabetes has been a silent killer worldwide, as most of the times people tend to neglect the symptoms of this disease. Approx. 35 million people in India suffer from Diabetes of which around 13 million cases remain undiagnosed and which keeps increasing every year. Tube Traders, retail distributor of Tata Pipes in Gujarat has taken an unique initiative of imparting awareness on diabetes and have organised a Diabetes Check-up Camp on 27^th. March 2010, especially for below poverty line people at Ahmedabad who generally are neither educated nor privileged enough to give this disease a due attention. Communication against the same had been done vide leaflets, posters and SMS. Footfalls at the event exceeded 100 with many bringing their spouses as well for check-up. The reports against samples taken would be couriered to the individuals and the patients diagnosed positive would be asked for another round of detailed check-up. 

 

 

 

 

Joy Of Giving Week Celebration

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